482521 - [es-MX] Search engine setup for Firefox 3.5 for Spanish (Mexico).

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: es-MX / Spanish (Mexico), defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We want to ship Firefox 3.5 a good list of search engines for Spanish (Mexico). 

We're going to work towards this in three phases. First, the localization team and Stas (Stas Malolepszy) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good set of search providers. Ricardo, we'll need your input on this, the guidelines for making recommendations are on http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_web_services_guidelines. 

For en-US, we currently use this set, to which we can fall back in the case of lacking localized alternatives:
Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Answers, CC, eBay, Wikipedia

After we decided on a particular search engine, Stas will contact the owner and ask for permission, and for specifics like proper search flags. undefined, we'll likely need your help to at least get the contact information.

Once we have a specification on what the searchengines for Spanish (Mexico) should look like, the localization team and Stas will work on an implementation on that. This should happen by the localization team creating and attaching patches for the desired changes, and requesting review from Stas. After a successful review, the localization team will land them.

Please don't commit any modifications in l10n/es-MX/browser/searchplugins to the cvs repository without a patch reviewed by Stas, Axel or someone else appointed by Stas or SethB. The data here is sensitive to users and our search partners, thus the extra care here.

Comment 1

[Seth Bindernagel]

Hi Ricardo:  Any progress here?  We would love to have you participate as a beta in FF 3.5 beta 4 and will need to provide recommended search plugins for es-MX to ensure participation.  Please let us know.  Thanks!

Comment 2

[Ricardo Meza]

Hi.

These are the searchengines for es-MX:

*Generic
 -Google (http://www.google.com.mx/)
 -Yahoo (http://mx.yahoo.com/)

*e-Commerce[1]
 -Mercado Libre (http://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/)
 -Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/[2]

*Specific interest[3]
 -Wikipedia (http://es.wikipedia.org/)

[1]In the case of the e-Commerce category, Ebay redirects you to the mercadolibre.com.mx website when you click on the "Mexico" link at bottom of the index website.
[2]Many people from Mexico buy in this website.
[3]There is no a translated version of the Answers/Ask websites to the Spanish language.

Comment 3

[Seth Bindernagel]

Thanks, Ricardo.  If there is not a translated version of Answers/Ask for Mexican users, do you think we can put Creative Commons in there?  Just trying to get another specific interest search engine for your version.  Please pass along other ideas if you have them.

Next step will be for Stas or me to contact Mercado Libre to verify that they are ok with us including them in the upcoming es-MX version.  If you are able to find the best contact for us to confirm that this is OK, that would be great.  We typically try to connect with someone in the the Business Development or Business Affairs department.  If you find a good contact, please pass it along in this bug.

Comment 4

[Ricardo Meza]

Ho yea, we can include CreativeCommons.

I'm searching a contacto in MercadoLibre...

Comment 5

[Seth Bindernagel]

OK, final list will be

Generic
+ Google (http://www.google.com.mx/)
+ Yahoo (http://mx.yahoo.com/)

e-commerce
+ Mercado Libre (http://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/)
+ Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/

Specific interest
+ Wikipedia (http://es.wikipedia.org/)
+ Creative Commons

Please send us the Mercado Libre contact.  If you cannot find us, please also let us know so we can try to find them.

Comment 6

[Ricardo Meza]

Somebody gave me this info, I called to her but maybe she is out of office:
Fayne Loya [phone] ext 126

Comment 7

[Seth Bindernagel]

Perhaps Juan B can help here, too.  Juan B, would you be willing to call Fayne Loya tomorrow since you would be able to chat quickly and without any problems.  We just need to confirm that Mercado Libre is ok with us shipping them as a search engine in the es-MX version of Firefox.

Comment 8

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

I called the number above in three occasions, but no one picks up. There's no option to leave a message, either. Asa mentioned he may have other contacts' information, so we'll ask him and try again.

Comment 9

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

E-mail sent to Mercado Libre to Martin Gallone <[e-mail]> (our es-AR contact).

Comment 10

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Attachment: [checked in] Patch (google, yahoo.mx, amazon.com, es-wikipedia, cc)

Here's a patch that we could use. Ricardo, do you mind if I land it? I just want
to make sure we have this in before the code freeze and that es-MX opts in for
beta4 with the correct revision number.

Comment 11

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Comment on attachment 372845 [details] [diff] [review]
[checked in] Patch (google, yahoo.mx, amazon.com, es-wikipedia, cc)

Landed on 1.9.1: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.1/es-MX/rev/713c8ef42a88

Let's continue to work on Mercado Libre in this bug.

Comment 12

[Ricardo Meza]

Hey Stás. Sorry for the late on reply, yes, we have it.

Comment 13

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.1/es-MX/diff/2332c8d6ab05/browser/searchplugins/list.txt reverted our settings here, narro export landing by Alexandru.

Comment 14

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.1/es-MX/rev/a64ee1198215 recreated list.txt.

Comment 15

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Do we still want to block on Mercado Libre?

Also, I think we should be in better shape these days to actually land that, Stas?

Comment 16

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

No need to block on Mercado Libre, we now have the permission and the parameters for the search plugin. Pike, forwarded the email to you, could you update this bug with the search codes to use for ML in Mexico?

Thanks!

Comment 17

[Seth Bindernagel]

Attachment: Mercado Libre es-MX patch

This adds the Mercado Libre search plugin to es-MX.  Flagging Pike for a review
since :stas is on vacation.  

Tested on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; xx-XX;
rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8

Comment 18

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 460850 [details] [diff] [review]
Mercado Libre es-MX patch

r=me with two nits:

remove the empty line in list.txt (harharhar), and the go param into one line?

Comment 19

[Seth Bindernagel]

Attachment: Mercado Libre es-MX patch

Cleans up the XML

Comment 20

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 460853 [details] [diff] [review]
Mercado Libre es-MX patch

r=me with nits don't require further patches, in general.

Please fix the empty line in list.txt still, though?

Comment 21

[Seth Bindernagel]

Attachment: Mercado Libre es-MX patch

Line removed in list.txt.

Comment 22

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 461017 [details] [diff] [review]
Mercado Libre es-MX patch

Like, totally, r=me.

Comment 23

[Seth Bindernagel]

Checked in changes that you can see in the following revision.

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.2/es-MX/rev/dc9441499c75

Closing bug, marking fixed.